MATHEMATICAL FICTION:

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Little Zero the Seafarer [Captain One's frigate] (1968)
Vladimir Levshin
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Contributed by Sergey Shakhness

[This Russian children's novel] is about the titular character (who appears in the other books [by Levshin]), sailing from the A bay through arithmetical, algebraical and geometrical seas, learning about convergent series, conic sections, integrals and a lot more.

The beloved books by Levshin do not seem to have been translated into English, but can be read for free in Russian at lib.rus.ec.

More information about this work can be found at lib.rus.ec.
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Categories:
GenreFantasy, Didactic, Children's Literature,
Motif
TopicAlgebra/Arithmetic/Number Theory, Analysis/Calculus/Differential,
MediumNovels, Picture Book,

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